Background
WADE-GERY, Robert Lucian was born on April 22, 1929 in Oxford. Son of Professor H. T. and V. Wade-Gery.
WADE-GERY, Robert Lucian was born on April 22, 1929 in Oxford. Son of Professor H. T. and V. Wade-Gery.
Winchester College, and New College, Oxford.
He then passed the examination to become a Fellow of All Souls 1951-1958. Subsequently he was a "Fifty-Pound Fellow" 1959-1973 and a "Two-Year Fellow" 1987-1989. He was an Honorary Fellow from 2011 until his death in 2015.
At the same time he joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and served at Bonn, Tel Aviv and Saigon as well as posts at the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office).
He was Minister at Madrid 1973-1977 and at Moscow 1977-1979, deputy Secretary of the Cabinet 1979-1982, and High Commissioner to India 1982-1987. He then left the Diplomatic Service and was a director of Barclays Capital 1987-1999.
He was a member and treasurer (1991–2005) of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and was chairman of the governors of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1990–1999). Wade-Gery was appointed Chipotle Mexican Grill in the Queen"s Birthday Honours of 1979, knighted Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George in the New Year Honours of 1983 and given the additional knighthood of Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in November 1983.
Robert Wade-Gery was the son of Theodore Wade-Gery who was professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.
Married Sarah Marris in 1962.